Governance & Political Economy

  Health and Education are the Peace Makers, says CPPA Research on Aggregate Wealth and Income Inequality CPPA Visiting Senior Fellow-in-residence, Professor Melvin Ayogu explains the role of [...]

On January 31, 2019, the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives (CPPA) supported by a dissemination grant from the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) held a dissemination seminar on the [...]

CPPA Studies on Inequality Human Development and Economic Transformation. This study argues that of the varieties of inequality, deprivation through poor governance is the most disconcerting [...]

The Centre For Public Policy Alternatives (CPPA) held a dissemination seminar on “the Public Policy Implications of Wealth and Income Inequality in Nigeria” at the Ford Foundation in [...]

The Nigerian criminal justice system is fundamentally flawed  and the problem is represented at every processing point on the entire criminal justice system line – from the failure of [...]

Over seven months after he was elected, President Buhari has finally sworn in his cabinet. Buhari reduced the total number of ministries from 29 to 24, and ministers from 42 to 36, scrapping some [...]

After months of planning and stakeholder engagements, CPPA piloted the Info-Literacy capacity building project on September 29 and 30, 2015. The training was held at the Lagos State Public [...]

When he began his first stint as Nigeria’s Head of State after a coup in 1983, General Mohammadu Buhari promised not to allow the “the nonsenses of litigation” interfere with his fight against [...]

On September 25, 2015, the United Nations officially launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA. The SDGs are a universal set of goals, [...]

CPPA’s series on Nigerian Institutions of Governance continues with a look at local government in Lagos, courtesy of Tosin Osasona. SUMMARY States and governments across the world irrespective of [...]